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Ministry of Communications
Shri Sanjay Dhotre inaugurates BHARAT AIRFIBER , a last mile telecom connectivity solution based on Radio Network
Shri. Sanjay Dhotre, Union Minister of State for HRD, Electronics, Communication, and IT, Govt Of India, inaugurated today “Bharat Air Fibre Services” at Akola in Maharashtra. With inauguration of Bharat Air Fibre services, residents of Akola & Washim district will get Wireless Internet Connections on demand.
The Bharat Air Fibre services are introduced by BSNL as part of digital India initiates by the Government of India and it aims of providing Wireless Connectivity in the range of 20 KMs from the BSNL Locations and thus customers at remote places also will be benefitted as BSNL comes with cheapest services with support of Telecom Infrastructure Partners .
BSNL is providing the “Bharat Air Fibre Services” through local business partners of BSNL from Akola & Washim District and these services will give fastest internet connectivity in quick time. These services are special and different from other operators as BSNL is providing unlimited free voice calling.
When BSNL will be increasing its customer base with this high Technology services, at the same time BSNL is giving a great opportunity to local residents of Akola and Washim District to join hands with BSNL as Telecom Infrastructure Partners. They will earn regular monthly income of about one lakh per month thereby becoming self-reliable under “Atma Nirbhar Bharat” initiatives of Govt of India.
These Bharat Air Fibre services opens new way of fastest Wireless internet connectivity as well Voice services in reasonable cost. BSNL provides Bharat Air Fibre connectivity upto 100 Mbps speed. BSNL is offering attractive Broadband plans in Wireline & Wireless segments and during lockdown BSNL has come up as most reliable brand for Internet connectivity there by successfully implementing the Work From Home started by Government as well as many private firms.
BSNL is successfully providing Landline/ Broadband & Fibre FTTH connections. In Month July 20, BSNL has provided 15000 FTTH connections in Maharashtra Circle and 162000 FTTH connections throughout India. These are the spectacular achievements during strict lockdown and pandemic COVID 19.
With launch of Wireless Bharat Air Fibre, more connections will be provided on demand in very quick time. BSNL appeals to all residents of Akola & Washim District to avail these quality & most affordable services.
Prime Minister's Office
PM hails Guinness World Record for ‘largest display of Lambani items’ with a total of 1755 items during 3rd G20 Culture Working Group Meeting in Hampi, Karnataka
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has hailed the Guinness World Record for ‘largest display of Lambani items’ with a total of 1755 items during 3rd G20 Culture Working Group Meeting in Hampi, Karnataka.
Sharing a tweet by Ministry of Culture, the Prime Minister tweeted:
“Commendable effort, which will popularise Lambani culture, art and craft as well as encourage Nari Shakti participation in cultural initiatives.”
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
UPDATES ON COVID-19
Recovery Rate more than 50%
A Total of 1,62,378 Patients cured of COVID-19
With 8,049 COVID-19 patients cured in the last 24 hours, the recovery rate has become more than 50%. A total of 1,62,378 patients, so far, have been cured of COVID-19.
Currently, the recovery rate is 50.60%. This indicates that of all the cases of COVID-19, half of them have recovered from the disease. Timely case identification and proper clinical management has been the road to recovery.
Currently, 1,49,348 active cases are under medical supervision.
ICMR‘s testing capacity for detecting the novel Coronavirus in infected persons is continuously being ramped up. The number of government labs has been increased to 646 and private labs has been increased to 247 . In the last 24 hours, 1,51,432 samples were tested. The total number of samples tested thus far is 56,58,614.
Today, the Union Health Minister along with the Union Home Minister held a meeting with the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi and Chief Minister of Delhi to review the COVID-19 situation in the NCT of Delhi. Strengthening of containment measures, ramping up testing and adequate health infrastructure preparedness were discussed in the meeting.
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In case of any queries on COVID-19, please call at the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare helpline no.: +91-11-23978046 or 1075 . List of helpline numbers of States/UTs on COVID-19 is also available at https://www.mohfw.gov.in/pdf/coronvavirushelplinenumber.pdf .
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
Budget2022 is a step towards innovative & sustainable development in New India to strengthen our Energy Transition journey and fight climate change: Power Minister
Additional Allocation of Rs. 19,500 crore proposed for production linked incentives for manufacturing of high efficiency modules
Sovereign Green Bonds will be issued for mobilizing resources for green infrastructure
The government aims to attain the vision of promoting energy transition and climate action during the Amrit kaal. While presenting the Union Budget 2022-23 in Parliament today, Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, laid emphasis on the vision of promoting energy transition and climate action during the Amrit kaal and put this as one of the important priorities of the country for moving forward.
Speaking on the budget specially on the power and renewable energy sector Union Minister for Power and MNRE Shri R.K Singh said "Congratulations to Finance Minister on a forward-looking Union Budget 2022-23. Aatmanirbhar Bharat Ka Budget of 2022 has laid the blueprint for India’s Amrit Kaal, covering areas like infrastructure, digitisation, agriculture, fiscal management, technology & manufacturing. Budget2022 is a step towards innovative & sustainable development in New India to strengthen our Energy Transition journey and fight climate change."
Energy Transition and Climate Action
“The risks of climate change are the strongest negative externalities that affect India and other countries”, the Union Finance Minister said while addressing the Parliament. She re-iterated the low carbon development strategy, announced by the Prime Minister, as an important reflection of our government’s strong commitment towards sustainable development.
This strategy opens up huge employment opportunities and the budget proposes several near-term and long-term actions in this regard.
The Budget has proposed an additional allocation of Rs. 19,500 crore for Production Linked Incentive for manufacture of high efficiency modules. This will also ensure the domestic manufacturing required for achieving the ambitious goal of 280 GW of installed solar capacity by 2030.
As a part of the government’s overall market borrowings in 2022-23, sovereign Green Bonds will be issued for mobilizing resources for green infrastructure. The proceeds will be deployed in public sector projects which help in reducing the carbon intensity of the economy.
Ministry of Agriculture &
Farmers Welfare
Formation of committee on MSP
As per the changing requirements of the country to change the cropping pattern, to make MSP more effective and transparent, and to encourage natural farming method of agriculture, the process of setting up a committee is under process. At present, in view of the assembly elections in some states, the process of concurrence of Election Commission for the formation of committee is under progress.
This information was given by Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shri Narendra Singh Tomar in Rajya Sabha today.
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
MNRE undertakes significant programmes to boost participation of women in energy sector
836 women candidates out of 2251 trained under Suryamitra skill development programme to be employed
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has been supporting capacity building programmes for skill development in the area of renewable energy including solar energy , wind energy , and small hydro power . The Suryamitra skill development programme is being implemented since financial year 2015-16, wherein 2251 women candidates were trained since inception of the programme till November 2022, out of which 836 candidates have been reported to be employed.
The Vayumitra and Jalurjamitra skill development programmes have been launched recently, where both men and women are eligible.
Ministry had also supported six months training programme specifically for semi-literate women of rural areas on assembly, installation, operation and maintenance of solar lanterns, lamps, etc.
This information was given by Shri R.K Singh, Union Minister for Power and New and Renewable Energy in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.
Ministry of Defence
Visit of Vice Admiral Piyal De Silva, Commander of the Sri Lankan Navy 
Vice Admiral Piyal De Silva, Commander of the Sri Lanka Navy visited India from 30 Mar to 02 Apr 19 on an official visit. This is the first visit of the Admiral to India after taking over as Commander, Sri Lanka Navy. The visit aims to consolidate bilateral naval relations between India and Sri Lanka as also to explore new avenues for naval cooperation.
During his visit, the Commander of the Sri Lanka Navy held bilateral discussions with Admiral Sunil Lanba, PVSM, AVSM, ADC Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee and Chief of the Naval Staff and other senior officials of the Indian Navy on 02 Apr 19.
Various important maritime engagement issues related to operational interactions such as Port Calls, conduct of Bilateral Exercise, Training, Hydrography cooperation and exchange of Subject Matter Experts in various fields were discussed during the bilateral interactions.
In addition to New Delhi, the Commander, Sri Lanka Navy visited Kochi and Mumbai, where he held discussions with the senior naval officials and visited various naval units. The training facilities at the Indian Naval Academy were also witnessed first hand during the visit of the Commander Sri Lanka Navy to Ezhimala, Kerala.
Department of Atomic Energy
Cyber Security Audit Kknpp
Complete check of the administrative network of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant  was done by Indian Computer Emergency Response Team  along with Computer & Information Security Advisory Group  of Department of Atomic Energy .Certain measures for immediate and short term implementation has been recommended. Several measures have been taken for further strengthening of Information Security in administrative networks viz. hardening of internet and administrative intranet connectivity, restriction on removable media, blocking of websites & IPs which have been identified with malicious activity etc.
This information was provided by the Union Minister of State  Development of North-Eastern Region , MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.
Ministry of Home Affairs
Narcotics Control Bureau, India and Police Narcotics Bureau, Sri Lanka identify areas of future cooperation
The third bilateral meeting between Narcotics Control Bureau , India and Police Narcotics Bureau , Sri Lanka on Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances and related matters began here today. The Indian delegation was led by Shri Abhay, Director General, NCB while the Sri Lankan delegation was headed by Mr. Sajeewa Medawatte, Deputy Inspector General, PNB. Indian delegation consisted of officials from Tamil Nadu Police, Coast Guard, MHA and MEA, apart from NCB officials.
The talks were held in a cordial and constructive atmosphere. The detailed discussion was held on latest trends in Narcotics smuggling in Indo-Sri Lankan sector, exchange of information and intelligence, assistance in tracing of Sri Lankan/Indian accused involved in cases of drug seizures in India/ Sri Lanka, important cases, gangs and traffickers detected/arrested, use of sea route to smuggle drugs and sharing of best practices and training needs.
NCB, India and PNB, Sri Lanka recognized the challenging drug situation in the region and identified useful areas of future cooperation including in field of information exchange, control delivery operations and training.
Ministry of Steel
NMDC’S 4TH Quarter results
NMDC has produced and sold 32.36 million tonnes of iron ore during 2018-19 against production of 35.58 million tonnes and sales of 36.08 million tonnes during previous year.
The Company’s turnover for the year 2018-19 is Rs. 12,153 crore against Rs. 11,615 crore during 2017-18, registering a growth of 5%.
NMDC’s Profit Before Tax  for the year 2018-19 is Rs. 7,198 crore against Rs. 6,179 crore during 2017-18, registering an impressive growth of 17 %. Similarly, Profit After Tax  for the year 2018-19 is Rs. 4,642 crore against Rs. 3,806 crore during 2017-18, registering a record growth of 22 %.
NMDC’s turnover during the 4th quarter is Rs 3,643 Crore comparable with turnover at Rs 3,883 Cr of CPLY. NMDC has recorded Profit Before Tax  of Rs 2,197 Crore and Profit After Tax  of Rs 1,454 Cr which are higher by around 10% & 31% respectively over 4th quarter of CPLY.
The Company’s production of iron ore during the 4th quarter is 10.59 million tonnes  registering a decrease of 7% over CPLY while sales of iron ore was
10.17 MT which is about 3% less than that of the CPLY.
CMD,NMDC,N. Baijendra Kumar, congratulated all the employees for their commitment, hard work and efforts. The CMD said that these results showed NMDC’s strength to bounce back in spite of operational challenges. He thanked all stakeholders, Ministry of Steel and Chhattisgarh State Government for their support.
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4th Quarter 2018-19
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Annual 2018-19
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Iron Ore Production 
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10.59
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32.36
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10.17
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32.36
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3,643
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12,153
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2,197
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7,198
Established on 15th November 1958 as a Public Sector Undertaking to explore, develop and exploit mineral resources other than fuel oil and atomic minerals, NMDC is engaged in mining of iron ore and diamonds. NMDC is India's single largest iron ore producer, presently producing over 35 million tonnes of iron ore from 3 fully mechanized mines in Chhattisgarh and Karnataka. In acknowledgement of its substantial contribution to the domestic mineral sector in the past six decades, it has been accorded the status of Schedule-A public sector company. In recognition of its consistent performance, the Company was also categorized as a ‘Navratna’ Public Sector Enterprise in 2008.
The company is diversifying into steel making and has undertaken several capital intensive projects to modernize and increase capacities to retain its domestic leadership and is also successful in its overseas ventures.
Ministry of Home Affairs
BPR&D to organize 2nd National Conference of Micro Missions of National Police Mission
Bureau of Police Research & Development  will organize the 2nd National Conference of Micro Missions of National Police Mission  here tomorrow. The two day Conference will discuss the issues of Skills and Competence at grass-root level, Attitudinal Changes in Police, Gender Sensitization, harnessing technology and Community Policing. Former Governor of Jammu & Kashmir, Shri N. N.Vohra will inaugurate the conference.
The National Police Mission  has so far developed 35 projects; some important among them are Transparent Recruitment Process, Police- Community Policing, Student Police Cadet Programme , Dial 100 – Integrated Emergency Response System, Cyberdome, Pre-litigation Counseling Forum and Review and Implementation of Rules and Processes for the Internal Management of Prisons and Prisoners. Conference shall witness releasing of mega-updated version of NPM Compendium on these projects.
The NPM is having knowledge based strength of 140 police officers from across the country from State/UTs/CAPFs/CPOs. The BPR&D will be giving NPM Awards to 09 officers for their contribution in Micro Missions and successful preparation of the implementable projects.
The National Police Mission Division of BPR&D strives in the direction of transforming the Police Forces of the country into effective instrument for maintenance of Internal Security and meeting challenges of the next century, by equipping them with the necessary material, intellectual and organizational resources and to create a “New Vision” for the police in a collaborative and inclusive manner using the collective wisdom and knowledge of various stakeholders.
Since its inception, NPM has been working for empowering the Police Forces by enhancing the skills and competence at grass root level, promoting a culture of excellence and accountability of police, meeting challenges such as asymmetric warfare, new trends in urban and social unrest, bring out specialisation in areas like counter-terrorism and insurgency, focusing on the strengthening of metropolitan and rural policing, bring in attitudinal changes in police, gender sensitisation and harnessing technology in aid of policing and adopting community policing etc.
To achieve the mandate of NPM, eight micro missions are working under BPR&D. BPR&D organizes Conference on National Police Mission annually.
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
India and EU have agreed to resume the negotiations for a balanced, ambitious, comprehensive and mutually beneficial trade agreement
India and EU have agreed to resume the negotiations for a balanced, ambitious, comprehensive and mutually beneficial trade agreement. Free Trade Agreement  negotiations, including those on specific issues, are to be held considering the interest of either side. The commodities included / excluded in the FTA negotiations are to be finalized based on extensive consultations with the stakeholders, once negotiations resume.
Review of the existing FTAs is an ongoing process to maximize country’s export potential to benefit the domestic industry, and to make the FTAs more user friendly, simple and trade facilitative.
This information was given by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Smt. Anupriya Patel, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.
Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
Large Scale Movement Of Goods And Services Through Waterways
The successful completion of the river cruise from Varanasi to Dibrugarh reflects that waterway is primed for river cruise services. Inland Waterways Authority of India , an autonomous organisation under Ministry of Ports, Shipping & Waterways, has undertaken Jal Marg Vikas Project  from Varanasi to Haldia to enable large scale movement of goods.
Brahmaputra River  provides alternate waterway connectivity to the North-Eastern Region  through Indo-Bangladesh Protocol  route and Ganga River with the States of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand& West Bengal. Movement of goods through Brahmaputra River -IBP route and Ganga River  is helpful in unlocking the economic potential of the North-Eastern Region.
During the recent past, cargo services have been successfully completed from Ganga River  to Brahmaputra River  as detailed at Annexure. The NW-1 and NW-2 are already operational waterways and cargo/passenger/tourism vessels are moving on them. On-going projects on NW-1 & NW-2, aims at capacity augmentation of these National Waterways.
Annexure
Scheduled Cargo Services on NW-1 and NW-2
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- Cargo Services from Haldia to Patna and Dhubri  to Bangladesh Started in Feb 22. Several Oil and Petro-Chemical Companies have pledged long term cargo movement for the first time from Assam to Bangladesh and Haldia.
- A pilot movement of 200 ton food grains of Food Corporation of India  was undertaken from Patna  to Pandu , Assam via Indo-Bangladesh Protocol route covering a distance of 2,350 km.
- Another pilot movement of 1798.27 ton Prime Thermo-Mechanically Treated Bars of M/s. Tata Steel Limited was also performed successfully on a 90 mtr long and 24 mtr vide vessel from Haldia Dock complex to Pandu  Through NW-1, IBP route and NW-2.
- An IWAI vessel transported stone from Bhutan to be delivered in Bangladesh by moving on NW 2  and the Indo Bangladesh Protocol Route in July 2019. This is the first time an Indian waterway was used as a channel for transport of cargo between two countries, using India for transit. 15 movements of Bhutan cargo to Bangladesh via IBP route took place during FY 2021.
- Regularized movement of stone aggregates from Bhutan through Dhubri  IWT terminal. 319 vessels loaded with stone aggregates / Coal of total weight 51,210 MT sailed from Dhubri  to Chilmari during FY 2021-22.
This information was given by the Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Shri Sarbananda Sonowal in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.
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Ministry of Power
NHPC pays interim dividend of Rs. 933.61 crore to Government of India for FY 2021-22
NHPC Limited, India’s premier hydropower company and a ‘Mini Ratna’ Category-I Enterprise of the Government of India has paid an interim dividend of Rs. 933.61 crore to Government of India for the financial year 2021-22 on March 4th 2022. The dividend payout bank advice was presented to Shri R.K. Singh, Hon’ble Union Minister of Power, New and Renewable Energy by Shri A.K. Singh, CMD, NHPC on March 10th 2022 in the presence of Shri Alok Kumar, Secretary  Government of India and Shri Y.K. Chaubey, Director , Shri R.P. Goyal, Director , Shri K.K. Goel, Executive Director  and Shri Sanjay Kumar Madan, Executive Director  from NHPC.
NHPC had already paid Rs. 249.44 crore to Government of India during the current fiscal 2021-22 on account of final dividend for the financial year 2020-21. Thus, NHPC has paid total dividend of Rs. 1183.05 crore to Government of India during the financial year 2021-22.
The Board of Directors of the Company in its meeting held on 11th February 2022 had declared an interim dividend at the rate of Rs. 1.31 per Equity share i.e. 13.10% of the face value. NHPC today has more than eight lakh shareholders and total interim dividend pay-out for the financial year 2021-22 worked out to Rs. 1315.90 crore. The Company had paid an interim dividend of Rs. 1.25 per share with total outflow of Rs. 1255.63 crore for the financial year 2020-21 in addition to final dividend of Rs. 0.35 per share with total outflow of Rs. 351.58 crore. Thus, total dividend of Rs. 1.60 per share with total outflow of Rs. 1607.21 crore had been paid for the financial year 2020-21.
In terms of Department of Investment & Public Asset Management  Guidelines dated May 27, 2016 on Capital Restructuring of CPSEs, each CPSU would pay a minimum annual dividend at the rate of 30% of PAT or 5% of Net worth, whichever is higher. In line with the ibid guidelines, NHPC had paid total dividend of Rs. 1607.21 crore i.e. 5.08% of net worth of the Company for the financial year 2020-21.
NHPC had earned net profit of Rs. 2977.62 crore for the nine months ended FY’22 as against the previous period corresponding figure of Rs. 2829.16 crore. The Company had earned net profit of Rs. 3233.37 crore for the financial year 2020-21.